Sunday, June 11, 2017

trains in cinema, part 11

- john carpenter - escape from new york - 1981

- walt disney etc - dumbo - 1941 (thanks andré cortines)

- atom egoyan - the sweet hereafter - 1997

- sidney j. furie - the ipcress file - 1965

- todd haynes - far from heaven - 2002

- todd haynes - carol - 2015

- john hillcoat - triple 9 - 2016

- john huston - wise blood - 1979

- ted kotcheff - wake in fright -1971

- yorgos lanthimos - the lobster - 2015

- mike leigh - high hopes - 1988

- mike leigh - another year - 2010

- joseph losey - the romantic englishwoman - 1975

- david mackenzie - hell or high water - 2016

- anthony minghella - the talented mr. ripley - 1999

- chan-wook park - the handmaiden - 2016

- alastair reid - armistead maupin's tales of the city - 1993

- wim wenders -  kings of the road - 1976

- billy wilder - some like it hot - 1959

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Mother and Son - Alexander Sokurov - A couple of astounding scenes with a train.

the art of memory said...

i like the film :) saw in the theater when it came out. long time

Glorious Jail said...

As you could pick out countless other themed scenes from film or television,what is it about trains that created this focused attention?

the art of memory said...

trains have more to do with cinema to me than most things you could grab. movement, rhythm, speed appearing as stasis. i find it interesting how many films and tv shows i watch that have trains.

the art of memory said...

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/importance-trains-movies/